Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there. – Max Lerner
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. – Max Lerner
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. – Max Lerner
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. – Max Lerner
It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering. – Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, “Phrases and Filberts,” Sayings, Wise and Otherwise